GNUstep Live CD

There are several efforts to create Live CDs of GNUstep

GNUSTEP Live CD

of Gürkan Sengün, Version 1.0 released on November 6, 2006

Bugs

• Some Apps can't be started from GWorkspace, instead openapp <MyApplication> is required

Which?

Cynthiune.app, DBModeler.app, Gorm.app, Lynkeos.app, ProjectCenter.app, Scheme.app, UL.app

• Some windows (for instance in DBModeler.app) can't be accessed since the title bar is offscreen (a seasoned gnustepper knows how to fix this but what about the newbees?)
• most dock icons show a generic icon at startup and reveal their true nature not before starting the associated app
• Some menus behave oddly
  • File:Menu-bug.png
• Sometimes a PS/2 mouse isn't recognized (differs from boot time to boot time on the same hardware)
• Some Apps have obvious bugs:
  • Cenon: on startup: "NSRangeException Index 0 is out of range 0 (in 'objectAtIndex:')"
  • DBModeler: Inspector Window is offscreen (the titlebar)

I actually think this is fairly normal with GNUstep apps (at least it happens to me all the time). With most WM all you have to do is hit ATL with the mouse inside the window to move it.

Bugs reported by Fred Kiefer:

• It took a long time to start up, during this it tried to get a network connection via DHCP and also prepared the nfonts. I think the first should be switched off and the fonts preprepared.

Your computer is very slow? Run a DHCP server in the network? Hm yeah maybe the prepreparation is a good idea, wonder how...

• There were no names on the dock icons, making it hard to realise what they were standing for.

I can fix that, exit wmaker, and it writes different WMState

• The fonts didn't display white space.

Can you provide a screenshot for this?

• There were no colour schemas predefined.

Can you provide the schemas and tell where they get on the filesystem?

There's some under the Modules/ColorSchemes directory of SystemPreferences in svn. I'm not 100% sure, but I think they go under $GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT/Library/Colors.

Feature Requests

• it should be obvious how to install GNUSTEP on HD from within the Live CD (ideally by employing a GUI based wizard)

I've got a text file on how to do it, what about you write an installer?

Can you mail me that file? How much is the effort needed to build such an installer (roundabout)?

Feel free to put it up on a server some where, cause I'd be interested too! If the procedures aren't too intensive, it could probably be done by FOSDEM with sh scripts.

The file is online and linked to from http://livecd.gnustep.org/ at the Installing part: http://www.linuks.mine.nu/gnustep/install.txt (the only quirk is the CD doesn't have rsync, so apt-get install rsync before you run any of the rsync commands)